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Word: sob (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plea is not the sob story of an irresponsible person who has committed a crime; although I may be considered criminal for destroying your fallacies and corrupting your illusions concerning the Negro and "his place." I am making no appeal to your emotions; my only purpose is to authentically define the desires of Negro youth and to eradicate any ideas concerning his complacency...

Author: By Andrew T. Hatcher., | Title: THE COLLEGE FRONT | 10/24/1942 | See Source »

...cordial invitation is extended to all skirted journalists or would-be sob-sisters to drop down to the ivy-covered CRIMSON office at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow evening. For the benefit of these who don't yet know their way around, after being at Harvard for two weeks, the building is at 14 Plympton Street, next to Adams House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VIRILE CRIMSON YIELDS AND OPENS COLUMNS TO OTHER SEX | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...week's end the thunder of battle had subsided to the sob of exhausted men and battle-spent machines. Both sides conceded that it had ended; both sides claimed victory. But the Russian claim was defensive: by the assault on Kharkov, Russia had prevented a Nazi drive on Rostov, 250 miles to the southeast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Not Yet | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...sob sister is slight, 35-year-old, soft-spoken Oveta Gulp Hobby. She is used to getting things done. Executive vice president and assistant editor of the Houston Post, she was a director of the Cleburne National Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ladies of the Army | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...With a sob in his voice and a look at the record, Governor W. Lee O'Daniel last week jumped into the Texas Senatorial campaign. There are now 21 candidates. O'Daniel's joining them made the State's special election this month, to find a successor to the late, great Prohibitionist Morris Sheppard, the biggest U.S. political show since the Presidential campaign last fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Free-for-all | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

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